Florida Voters urge Secretary of State to address threats to next month’s elections: 14-17 Counties have defective firmware chip that causes errors in results reports. 16 Counties have problem causing optical scan machines to freeze or shut down…New York -One Person, No Vote?…Time for South Carolina to adopt paper ballots says Eleanor Hare, Assoc Prof Computer Science at Clemson U: “As long as we use these unverifiable voting machines, we can neither confirm nor invalidate unexpected election results with certainty.” ..Possible boycott of India EVMs…

All this and more in todays’ voting news below…

CO: Denver rolls out ballot-tracking program for mail-in primary votesdenverpost.com/headlines/ci_15444918

CO: Colorado’s 2010 primary election voting-service centersdenverpost.com/election2010/ci_15445006The Aug. 10 primary will be a mail-in ballot election, but there are 13 voting-service centers, where voters can drop off their ballots and the disabled can vote on touch-screen machines

CT: Secretary of State Has No Business Doing Thisblog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2010/07/07/secretary-of-state-has-no-business-doing-this/Urging people to join only 2 of the many parties in Connecticut, just because those 2 are the only ones having primaries, is just, in my humble opinion, wrong, wrong wrong for an official elected to uphold the integrity of elections for all parties and participants.

FL: Legislature’s redistricting amendment declared misleadingblogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2010/07/legislatures-redistricting-amendment-tossed.htmlThe Legislature’s decision to counter the Fair Districts Florida redistricting amendment with its own was declared misleading by Judge James Shelfer, who tossed it off the ballot. His ruling is sure to be appealed.

Shelfer said it took him three days to understand the meaning of Amendment 7 and that he couldn’t foresee how an average voter would grasp its description during a few minutes in the voting booth.

FL: Military voters to get earlier ballots this yearbradenton.com/2010/07/07/2414273/military-to-get-earlier-ballots.htmlMANATEE — Deployed military and overseas voters should be among the earliest voters in Florida primary election history starting Friday when absentee ballots are expected to be distributed.

GA: Paulding voters face changesneighbornewspapers.com/detail/161253.htmlWhen the polls open on Election Day, July 20, there will be a few changes for Paulding voters.

Deidre Holden, supervisor of the Election and Registrations Department, said the changes include moving 53,000 of the 78,996 registered voters into new precincts, as approved by the United States Department of Justice.

The changes to the precincts were triggered by the reduction from 28 to 14

NY: More Voices for a Better Overvote Procedure in New Yorkclick herebetter_overvote_procedure_in_new_york/is.gd/dkIfOA panel of leading computer scientists wrote to the Boards of Elections yesterday to emphasize that “[t]he most obvious solution to this problem is to set the voting machines to reject overvoted ballots” Because no software would be modified, testing of the change can be expected to be simple, straightforward and efficient, and to take no more than a day.”

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